His most recent sketch, which aired Dec. 9, won much praise on the internet: In order to understand liberal white women, who he said often wrote in to complain when he made fun of a marginalized group, he decided to go undercover as one himself. His experience as “Gretchen” helped him realize that such women “want the same thing that everybody else wants: equality, respect, and wine in the daytime with no judgment.”

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